Macao's tertiary industry has contributed 94.9 percent gross value added to Macao's economy in 2017, with that of wholesale and retail, and gaming activities increasing by 21.9 percent and 16.2 percent respectively, the special administrative region's statistic service said here on Thursday.

Gross value added of all economic activities of Macao registered a 9.1 percent growth in real terms in 2017 after declining by 0.7 percent year-on-year in 2016, underpinned by satisfactory performance of the tertiary sector, the latest report from the Statistics and Census Service said.

The contribution of the secondary sector to total gross value added fell from 6.7 percent in 2016 to 5.1 percent in 2017, owing to a decrease in the share of construction activities.